Career & Identity

Dear friends and readers, My apologies for not blogging recently. I took on an expanded role at my company a few months ago and I haven’t had much time for writing or anything else of late. The job’s great, the company fantastic, but it is all incredibly demanding. I...

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” – Henry Ford Of all the self-defeating habits that steal our happiness and kill our chances to reach our dreams, I have come to believe that the two biggest culprits are doubt and distraction. Doubt and...

A personal awakening can be looked upon as a powerful shift in thinking that occurs at points throughout our lives, in which motivations or talents we didn’t know we had surface and point us in new directions. An awakening sometimes takes the form of a traumatic...

While in Redondo Beach over the Fourth of July weekend visiting my son during his summer internship, I was sitting at the Starbucks when a man sat down across from me and introduced himself as the famed mime, actor and screenwriter Joseph Lennon McCord. I admit to not...

The other day a friend gave me the tragic news that a former colleague of ours had died. He had recently lost his job, and so he rented a room at a cheap hotel off the turnpike and hanged himself. He was 46. I was stunned. This man had everything going for him. He was...

It was a Friday morning and I got the call no one wants to get. Because of a shakeup at the company where I worked, I would be losing my well-paying job. I’d been there for 28 years, received consistently glowing performance reviews, climbed the proverbial ladder to...